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Kamis, 24 April 2014

VA Hospital in Phoenix And The Secret Waiting List - Patients Are Victims Of A System Where Meeting Analytical Goals Trumps Any Sort of Ethics And Care-“The Grays” Where People Can No Longer Tell the Difference Between “Virtual” and “Real” World Values

Update: Sharron Helman, Director of the Phoenix VA made almost $10,000 in bonus money as well.

We all know the VA is under pressure almost all across the country and this is the sad result when such methodologies are used to hide what is actually happening in the “real” world and virtual statistical reporting has taken over. This not only exists at the VA but everywhere your turn today as people can’t tell the difference anymore between “virtual” and “real” world values. Any mathematician or quant will tell you about this and as a matter of fact watch the videos in my footer here to get a better idea on how this works. Furthermore at the link below, and this may be a bit advanced for the average reader, is a written abstract that basically discusses how using analytics and numbers for solutions and expecting some type of ethical concerns is just not there. This is where the lines is drawn where you have to be careful in where and how you get distracted at times, and we all have to do this under various circumstances.

Here in the video a retired doctor tells all in the video below. We have a Congress that’s pretty ineffective in doing much at all. Patients are dying waiting for care. 40 veterans waiting care died and the extreme methodologies used of a “sham” list that was hidden. Think about this when you read all the stats that we are fed. There’s a reason for this is if you fed the same thing over and over, you being to think it’s correct and I call that Algo Duping and its all around us. 1600 in all were on a “secret list” and it even went so far as to shred the evidence of charts and files. Who knows where else such “lists” could exist and I certainly hope there’s are not anymore models like this being used.

The appearance of improving waiting times was the name of the game here. Until the vet received an appointment they were placed on the “secret list”. Here’s another case of “The Grays” for sure to where the facility and top executive was stuck in meeting goals of the numerical “virtual world” and couldn’t tell the difference with the virtual and the real world and people died.

The top management defended the use of the “secret list” and that is sad. Again we come back to “scoring” and of course whether it was in writing or just verbal, a “scoring” system of some sort was used to create the “secret list”.

The sad thing here too is that anyone of us could get caught up in such a system and again it’s this huge problem of confusion of virtual versus real world values. Doctors such as the retired VA MD interviewed here, deal with the real world every day, and there’s a name for that, it’s called patients and the staff, well they are wrapped up in “cooking books” with algorithmic formulas to make themselves look like they are in compliance with all the virtual goals set in the real world, that offer punitive actions in the real world if not accomplished.

All records now have to be preserved at the VA Phoenix center. What do you get from the VA after this story, “we are improving waiting times” they are still stuck in “The Grays”…nobody is being held accountable, just meet those numbers and virtual compliance standards set and everything will be fine, right…well let’s hope folks start waking up and soon. Take time and watch the 4 videos in my footer when you have time as there’s some very smart people that will offer you some education on how this works and it all stems from the financial district of Wall Street for profit. BD

-- At least 40 U.S. veterans died waiting for appointments at the Phoenix Veterans Affairs Health Care system, many of whom were placed on a secret waiting list.

The secret list was part of an elaborate scheme designed by Veterans Affairs managers in Phoenix who were trying to hide that 1,400 to 1,600 sick veterans were forced to wait months to see a doctor, according to a recently retired top VA doctor and several high-level sources.

"The scheme was deliberately put in place to avoid the VA's own internal rules," said Foote in Phoenix. "They developed the secret waiting list," said Foote, a respected local physician.

The VA requires its hospitals to provide care to patients in a timely manner, typically within 14 to 30 days, Foote said.

According to Foote, the elaborate scheme in Phoenix involved shredding evidence to hide the long list of veterans waiting for appointments and care. Officials at the VA, Foote says, instructed their staff to not actually make doctor's appointments for veterans within the computer system.

Foote says Breen is a perfect example of a veteran who needed an urgent appointment with a primary doctor and who was instead put on the secret waiting list -- where he remained hidden.

Foote adds that when veterans waiting on the secret list die, they are simply removed.

"They could just remove you from that list, and there's no record that you ever came to the VA and presented for care. ... It's pretty sad."